Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000

1840 Census

Census (County and State)

Sources: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Sixth Decennial Census of the United States, 1840. Compendium of the Enumeration of the Inhabitants & Statistics of the United States as Obtained at the Department of State, From the Returns of the Sixth Census by Counties and Principal Towns Exhibiting the Population, Wealth, and Resources of the Country... (Washington, D.C.: Printed by Thomas Allen, 1841).
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Original Worksheets of the Urban Population Prepared for the 1930 Federal Census. (n.d.).

Variables 4, 7-83: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1841], Unnumbered Table, "Population", pp. 4-103.
Variables 84-92: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1841], Unnumbered Table, "Recapitulation of the aggregate value....".
Variables 5-6: U.S. Bureau of the Census, [n.d.].
Variable 106: Unpublished data furnished by Lee A. Craig, Dept. of Economics, North Carolina State University
Variables 96-105, 107-111: Calculated from other variables.

Sources: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Sixth Decennial Census of the United States, 1840. Compendium of the Enumeration of the Inhabitants & Statistics of the United States as Obtained at the Department of State, From the Returns of the Sixth Census by Counties and Principal Towns Exhibiting the Population, Wealth, and Resources of the Country... (Washington, D.C.: Printed by Thomas Allen, 1841).

Variables 4-11: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1841], Unnumbered Table, "Population".
Variables 12-199: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1841], Unnumbered Table, "Recapitulation of the aggregate value....".

Sources: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Sixth Decennial Census of the United States, 1840. Compendium of the Enumeration of the Inhabitants & Statistics of the United States... (Washington, D.C. 1841).
Lee A Craig. To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the Antebellum North. (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman. To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1987).